The cake is still in the oven. Alabama football had its second scrimmage of preseason camp on Saturday, and afterward, Nick Saban said the Crimson Tide still doesn’t have its starting quarterback.

Saban declined to give much detail about the three competing signal-callers, Jalen Milroe, Ty Simpson and Tyler Buchner, when asked during a post-scrimmage press conference.

“They all got to play,” Saban said. “They all took snaps. They all completed some passes. They all made some throws that weren’t as good as they should have been, and they all got sacked. That’s what I saw.”

While Milroe, Simpson and Buchner have been the three Saban has pointed to as competing for the job, they’re not the only quarterbacks on the roster. The head coach was asked about one of the Tide’s other options, Dylan Lonergan.

He was fairly complimentary of the freshman.

“He’s done really well,” Saban said. “I think he shows great ability, great potential. I think the thing that he needs is experience and here everybody says ‘What’s experience?’ What’s your ability to self-assess?”

Getting his players to look inward in the quest to get better has been one of Saban’s talking points throughout camp. It was no different with Lonergan, with the head coach noting that the ability to do so comes with age and experience.

“You have experiences, you make mistakes, you mess up,” Saban said. “You say, ‘Well I’m not gonna do that again.’ And that’s how you learn and progress. So I know he’s a talented guy and certainly a guy that we want to continue to try to develop, but he’s done a nice job so far in camp.”

Lonergan was a four-star prospect in Alabama’s 2023 class. He was ranked as the No. 13 quarterback in his class according to the 247Sports composite.

Alabama’s quarterbacks, along with their teammates, are scheduled to continue camp through Aug. 26. The Tide opens the season Sept. 2 against Middle Tennessee State.

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